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Clara Bow Actress, Asas

Clara Bow was born in a run-down tenement in old Brooklyn, to a schizophrenic

Mother and a chronically destitute, physically abusive father. As a child, she was a

tomboy and played games in the streets with the boys; since her clothes were so ragged

and dirty other girl children wouldn't play with her...

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Nita Naldi Actress, O Médico E o Monstro

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Nonna Dooley, the future silent screen star, began her career as a showgirl in a Shubert

revue in the Winter Garden, later went on to the famed Ziegfeld Follies. After a

successful career on the stage with the Follies, Nita decided to try her hand with films in

Hollywood. Her rise to fame was very quick...

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Alla Nazimova Actress, Salome

The grand, highly flamboyant Russian star Alla Nazimova of Hollywood silent films

lived an equally grand, flamboyant life off-camera, though her legendary status has not

held up as firmly as that of a Rudolph Valentino today. Born in Yalta, Crimea, in 1879,

Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was the third child in an abusive...

“ ( 1879 - 1945 ) ” - titoexpedienteazul

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Anna May Wong Actress, O Expresso de Shanghai

Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles,

California. Her parents ran a laundry in the city's Chinatown section. Anna became a

photographer's model when she was still attending Hollywood High School. She was

fascinated with the movie industry at a young age, having observed several films being

shot in and around her neighborhood...












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Marie Dressler Actress, Jantar às Oito

Once you saw her, you would not forget her. Despite her age and weight, she became

one of the top box office draws of the sound era. She was 14 when she joined a theater

group and she went on to work on stage and in light opera. By 1892, she was on

Broadway and she later became a star comedienne on the vaudeville circuit...


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Theda Bara Actress, Cleopatra

Theda Bara was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Theodosia Goodman, on July 29, 1885.

She was the daughter of a local tailor and his wife. As a teenager Theda was interested

in the theatrical arts and once she finished high school, she dyed her blond hair black

and went in pursuit of her dream. By 1908 she was in New York in search of roles...













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Florence Vidor Actress, The Marriage Circle

Quite renown in her day, movie fans witnessed the great photogenic beauty but not the

Southern-bred tones of silent star Florence Vidor, for she abruptly left the silver screen

after her first disastrous attempt at a talking picture. Born Florence Arto on July 23,

1895, she was the daughter of John F...

“ ( 1895 -1977 ) ” - titoexpedienteazul

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Corinne Griffith Actress, The Divine Lady

Corinne Griffith was a popular star of the silent movies. Corinne started her film career

at Vitagraph in 1916. She later moved to First National where she became one of their

big stars. At the height of her popularity, she was known as the "Orchid Lady of the

Screen". 'Black Oxen (1924)' was one of her most popular films...














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Colleen Moore Actress, Ella Cinders

Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison on August 19, 1900, in Port Huron,

Michigan. Her father was an irrigation engineer and his job was good enough to provide

the family a middle-class environment. She was educated in parochial schools and

studied at the famed Detroit Conservatory. Colleen's family moved to Atlanta...

“ ( 1900 1988 ) ” - titoexpedienteazul

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Claire Windsor Actress, The Blot

Born Clara Viola Cronk in Cawker City, Kansas, her parents were Ella and G.E. Cronk.

She was educated at Broadway High School in Seattle, Washington, and Washburn

Preperatory Academy in Topeka, Kansas. She studied voice and piano at Cohn's

Conservatory of Music in Seattle, Washington. She started her film career as an extra on

the Lasky lot...













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Barbara La Marr Actress, The White Moth

Reatha Watson (Barbara La Marr) is most famous as one of the first drug-related deaths

in Hollywood, but she is notable for many other reasons. Born in Yakima, Washington,

her parents moved to the Imperial Valley in California, where Reatha began her

explorations of Los Angeles as a teenager. After...


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Carol Dempster Actress, Sally of the Sawdust













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Blanche Sweet Actress, Judith of Bethulia

Born into a family of show people, Blanche first appeared on the stage when she was 18

months old. Blanche was a dancer by the time she was four and a talented actress by

1909 when she started work at Biograph with D.W. Griffith. At 14, she was two years

younger than Mary Pickford, but her maturity and appearance soon lead to leading

roles...


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Billie Dove Actress, O Pirata Negro

In her heyday, this ravishing and highly photogenic star, known for her voluptuous

femininity on the silent screen, rivaled that of Mary Pickford, Marion Davies and Clara

Bow in popularity. She retired after only a few years into the talking picture era,

however, and is not as well-remembered in today's film circles as the aforementioned...



















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Betty Compson Actress, The Docks of New York

A mining engineer's daughter, blond, blue-eyed Betty Compson began in show business

playing violin in a Salt Lake City vaudeville establishment for $15 a week. Following

that, she went on tour, accompanied by her mother, with an act called 'the Vagabond

Violinist'. Aged eighteen, she appeared on Alexander Pantages Theatre Circuit...


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Estelle Taylor Actress, Cimarron

A former typist, Estelle Taylor married a banker at age 14 and, after leaving him, moved

to New York to study dramatic acting. She also modeled for artists and appeared in the

chorus of a couple of Broadway shows. In the early 1920s she came to Hollywood and

was noted as one of the film colony's most beautiful women...













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Pearl White Actress, The Perils of Pauline

She met her first husband when they were touring together in the Trousdale Stock

Company, a repertoire group. Her second husband was an actor and war hero. Her

second husband was distraught over the dissolution of the marriage, and disappeared

only weeks after the divorce. It was believed that he had committed suicide...


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Billie Burke Actress, O Mágico de Oz

Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke on August 7, 1885, in

Washington, DC. Her father was a circus clown, and as a child she toured the US and

Europe with the circus (before motion pictures and after the stage, circuses were the

biggest form of entertainment in the world). One could say that Billie was bred for show

business...













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Mae Busch Actress, Sons of the Desert

Mae Busch can certainly claim career versatility, having successfully played Erich von

Stroheim's mistress, Lon Chaney's girlfriend, Charley Chase's sister, James Finlayson's

ex-wife and Oliver Hardy's wife! She was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1891; her

parents were in the theater and when she was 9 years old the family moved to the

United States...

“ ( 1891 - 1946) ” - titoexpedienteazul

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Sara Allgood Actress, Como Era Verde Meu Vale

Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed

Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to he English stage, where she played for many

years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she

spent a lot of time playing Irish mothers...



















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Elissa Landi Actress, A Comédia dos Acusados

Elissa Landi was born in Venice, Italy, on December 6, 1904. From childhood she was

fascinated with the stage. As many little girls did at the time, Elissa wanted nothing

more than to be a big star on the great stages of Europe. Her acting career started out at

local theater companies, eventually leading her to the hallowed stages of London...


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Mae Marsh Actress, Intolerância

Mae Marsh's father was an auditor for the railroad who died when she was four. Her

family moved to San Francisco, where her stepfather was killed in the 1906 earthquake.

Her great-aunt then took Mae and her sister to Los Angeles. With her show business

background, Mae's aunt took them to the various movie studios for work as extras...













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Margaret Dumont Actress, Duck Soup

Margaret Dumont would probably consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her

performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films

(including most of their best). By all accounts she never understood their jokes

(offscreen and on), which is of course a major reason why she's so funny...


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Bebe Daniels Actress, Rua 42

Bebe Daniels already had toured as an actor by the age of four in a stage production of

Richard III the US, she had her first leading role at the age of seven and started her film

career shortly after this in movies for Imperial, Pathe and others. At 14 she was already

a film veteran, and was enlisted...













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Marie Prevost Actress, The Godless Girl

Popular star in Hollywood for two decades through 1936. Began as a Mack Sennett

"Bathing Beauty" in 1917, later starring in dozens of light comedies. But not long into

the sound era, she would have encountered problems with her burgeoning weight, to the

jeopardy of her career. Her self-remedy resulted ultimately in her starving to death. (See

also Laird Cregar.)


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Mae Murray Actress, The Merry Widow

Dubbed "The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips", silent screen actress Mae Murray began

her career on stage partnered with ballroom dancing extraordinaire Vernon Castle in the

1906 Broadway show "About Town." Born the daughter of émigrés, she began studying

dance at a young age. Two years later she joined the "Ziegfeld Follies" chorus line and

moved up to headliner status by 1915...
















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Agnes Ayres Actress, O Sheik

Extremely popular silent star of the 1920s. Her popularity was enhanced when she co-

starred with Rudolph Valentino in O Sheik and The Son of the Sheik. She made her

screen debut at Essanay Studios in 1915. She was still at the height of her popularity

until the advent of sound, when she disappeared from the screen altogether...


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Anna Q. Nilsson Actress, Lágrimas de Homem

Anna Quirentia Nilsson, popularly known as "Anna Q", who was born on March 30th,

1888, in Ystad, Sweden, emigrated to the United States in 1905. The 5'7" Nilsson used

her blonde beauty to become a famous model for well-known fashion photographers

and fine artists. In 1907 she was chosen the most beautiful girl in the US and in 1911

made her film debut in Molly Pitcher...

“ ( 1888- 1974 ) ” - titoexpedienteazul
















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Bessie Love Actress, O Mundo Perdido

Bessie Love was born in Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood,

where he became a chiropractor. As the family needed money, Bessie's mother sent her

to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress. D.W. Griffith saw she was

pretty and had some acting talent, and put her in several of his films...


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Renée Adorée Actress, The Big Parade

Renee Adoree was born Jeanne de la Fontein in Lille, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France on

30 September 1898. Renee had what one could call a normal childhood. Her

background is, perhaps, one of the most difficult to find information on any actress in

existence. What we do know that her interest in acting surfaced during her teen years

with minor stage productions in France...














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Madge Bellamy Actress, White Zombie

Madge got her start in theater working with a stock company in Denver. Put under a

personal contract by a Broadway producer, Madge got her big break when she replaced

Helen Hayes in the Broadway play "Dear Brutus". Her success as a stage actress led to

her being signed by Fox Pictures. After appearing in a number of movies in the early

20's...


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Gloria Swanson Actress, Crepúsculo dos Deuses

Gloria Swanson went to public schools in Chicago; Key West, Florida; and San Juan,

Puerto Rico. Her film debut was as an extra in The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the

Meal Ticket. From the following year on, she had leading roles in pictures for Keystone,

then a year with Triangle, and, in 1919, a contract with Cecil B. DeMille. DeMille

transformed her from a typical Mack Sennett comedienne into a lively...

















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Pola Negri Actress, Die Bergkatze

Barbara Apollina Chalupiec (aka Pola Negri) was born in Janowa, Poland on New

Year's Eve in 1894. Pola was born into a comfortable lifestyle until her father was

arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. Moving to Warsaw in

1902, she was to spend her formative years in dire poverty...

“ ( 1894 -1987 ) ” - titoexpedienteazul

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Lita Grey Actress, Seasoned Greetings

Juvenile actress in US films of the 20s. Ms. Grey began working for Charles Chaplin at

his Hollywood studio when she was 12, became pregnant by him at age 16 and married

him in 1924 when she was 16 and he was 35. They had two sons before their three-year

marriage ended in a bitter divorce. Ms. Grey...














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Marion Davies Actress, Show People

Marion Cecelia Douras was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York on January 3,

1897. She had been bitten by the show biz bug early as she watched her sisters perform

in local stage productions. She wanted to do the same. As Marion got older, she tried

out for various school plays and did fairly well...


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Norma Talmadge Actress, The Children in the House

Norma Talmadge was born on May 26, 1895 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The daughter

of an unemployed alcoholic and his wife, Norma did not have the idyllic childhood that

most of us yearn for. Mr. Talmadge up and left the family on Christmas Day and left his

wife and three daughters to fend for themselves...














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Constance Talmadge Actress, A Pair of Silk Stockings

She was blonde; star sister Norma Talmadge was brunette. She was buoyant and a

comedienne; Norma was introspective and a tragedienne. Nicknamed "Dutch" by her

stage mother Peg as she looked like a cherubic Little Dutch Boy, silver screen star

Constance Talmadge was one of silent pictures' most popular and enduring stars of

romantic comedy...


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Dorothy Gish Actress, O Cardeal

Dorothy Gish was born into a broken family where her restless father James Lee Gish

was frequently absent. Mary Robinson McConnell a.k.a. Mary Gish, her mother, had

entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Dorothy and her

sister Lillian Gish were old enough, they became part of the act...
















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Lillian Gish Actress, O Nascimento de Uma Nação

Lillian Gish was born into a broken family where her restless father James Lee Gish

was frequently absent. Mary Robinson McConnell a.k.a. Mary Gish, her mother, had

entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Lillian and her

sister Dorothy were old enough, they became part of the act...

“ ( 1893 - 1993 ?

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Vilma Bánky Actress, The Son of the Sheik

Vilma Bánky appeared in Hungarian, Austrian and French movies between 1920 and

1925, the year in which Samuel Goldwyn signed her, in Budapest, to a Hollywood

contract. In Hollywood she was billed as the "The Hungarian Rhapsody". In the mid and

late 1920s she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, especially playing with Ronald

Colman...



















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Mary Pickford Actress, Coquete

Destined to become America's first sweetheart, Mary Pickford was born Gladys Marie

Smith on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Acting would become second

nature to little Mary. Her parents were actors and it was only natural that she would

follow in their footsteps. Her mother wasted no time in introducing her to the stage...


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Mabel Normand Actress, Carlitos - O Inesquecível

Mabel Normand was barely in her teens when her family moved to New York. The

daughter of a vaudeville musician, she began modeling for artists and photographers

including James Montgomery Flagg and Charles Dana Gibson. From modeling, she

went into films where her first picture was Over the Garden Wall. After she left

Vitagraph...

















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Ethel Barrymore Actress, Portrait of Jennie

Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life

of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from

England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family

by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage

company...













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Zasu Pitts Actress, Greed

First a silent-screen heroine, then a daft-headed character actress in US films from the

20s through the 50s.


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Louise Brooks Actress, A Caixa de Pandora

A legendary actress of the silent film era. She epitomized the flapper age with her

bobbed hairstyle, while blatantly flaunting the accepted sexual and societal roles of

women at the time. She is best known for her starring roles in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's

Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl," which were both filmed in Weimar Germany in 1929...













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Janet Gaynor Actress, Nasce uma Estrela

After graduating from high school in San Francisco, Janet moved to Los Angeles and

enrolled at a Hollywood secretarial college. Eager to get into movies, she started

working as an extra in comedy shorts. In 1925, she was hired by Fox and was cast in

The Johnstown Flood. In 1927 she appeared in Sétimo Céu as Diane and Aurora as the

wife in danger...


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Brigitte Helm Actress, Metrópolis

After her role in Metrópolis she made a string of movies in which she almost always

had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was Ein

idealer Gatte (An Ideal Spouse) in 1935.



















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Lya De Putti Actress, The Informer

The daughter of a Hungarian baron and countess, Lya De Putti went on to perform

classical ballet in Berlin, Germany, after a brief stint in Hungarian vaudeville. She later

made several films at the German UFA studios, most notably Varieté, before going to

Hollywood in 1926. While in America she starred in several movies, mostly in vamp

roles.


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Thelma Todd Actress, Os Gênios da pelota

A one-time teacher and beauty queen, Thelma went to Hollywood in the late 1920s and

soon became one of the premier comediennes of her day, with many appearances in

comedy shorts (with Zasu Pitts, Patsy Kelly, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and others)

and also feature-length movies. In the 1930s...

















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